Welcome Mat Gone

Jul 17, 2009 4 Replies

I have been using what I think is a public AP that one of my neighbors turned me on to.



Was working fine, then suddently I am getting d/c from the unencrypted network. Changing the mac address got me back on several times and then that stopped working.



Doing a search I find it is being run by a major phone company, an unencrypted AP.



The DHCP still assigns me an IP, but http and other requests cannot make connections according to my firewall window.



I can get back on for a few hours here and there, but eventually I am d/c.



If they're trying to block me why would they let me on for a few hours at a time and then I am d/c?



What's going on here?


Try this (not all of us are aholes here) ;-)

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bumblbee7 wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.x-privat.org:

How about asking the folks that run the AP?

bumblbee7 wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.x-privat.org:

Run a sniffer, sniff some IPS and MACS and set your IP and your MAC Addy to the same as one of their favorite users and then connect.

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